29th June - Today's News

Back from Peebles with a million midge bites and a slight hangover ...... Loads of weather stories to bring you up to date with as well so not much comment from me today - except to say well done BBC for broadcasting half of Springsteen's superb Glastonbury concert, now why the h*ll couldn't you have shown the rest of it? Us licence payers paid a of money for you to send hundreds of people to film the concert, least you could do is show it!

However, although bookmakers make Britain odds on for a summer scorcher, I still wouldn't be betting on any records being broken. The weather this week is pretty much waht would normally be expected most summers and by next week things will be a good bit cooler. I will admit this heatwave has come earlier in the summer - and indeed looks like pushing the mercury up a bit higher - than I had expected. Still, it'll really annoy those who dislike the Met Office because there's no way you can really argue that, compared to 2007 and 2008, this is indded a 'BBQ Summer'. So far. Well, except in Aberdeen where the sun hasn't been seen since 2003.

Oh, and getting back to Glastonbury, the festival started drenched in rain but then the sun came out, the E Street Band walked on stage and it ended up being declared the best ever. I almost wish I'd been there. Until I think of the toilets ......

The idea of this blog is to produce a regular round up of global weather and related news stories which then acts as an archive. Some links may be lost in time but by searching the original headline on Google it should be possible to find related stories. Additionally, it gives me somewhere to add my own thoughts on some stories, as the mood takes me.